--- title: They wake the Dormouse for a story: three sisters, Elsie, Lacie and… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: They wake the Dormouse for a story: three sisters, Elsie, Lacie and Tillie, who live at the bottom of a well and eat nothing but treacle. Who acts: cups, three sisters. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cups, three sisters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:5 # text = They wake the Dormouse for a story: three sisters, Elsie, Lacie and Tillie, who live at the bottom of a well and eat nothing but treacle. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wake wake VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Dormouse Dormouse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Elsie Elsie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Lacie Lacie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 Tillie Tillie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 28 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 obj _ _ 29 but but ADP IN _ 30 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 30 treacle treacle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wake** | present | cups *= cup* | the Dormouse | | | | for a story | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dormouse=Patient | | 2 | **live** | present | three sisters | | | the bottom of a well | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location | | 3 | **eat** | present | three sisters *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:5`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/4/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/)